InnoDB inserts very slow and slowing down

Question

I have recently switched my project tables to InnoDB (thinking the relations would be a nice thing to have). I\'m using a PHP script to index about 500 products at a time. <

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and it seems InnoDB has by default innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit enabled which flushes every insert/update query on your hdd log file. The writing speed of your hard disk is a bottleneck for this process.

So try to modify your mysql config file

  `innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit  = 0`

Restart mysql service.

I experienced about x100 speedup on inserts.